The photograph below shows us a typical
small shop as they were to be seen in villages and country towns all over
Britain.
In this case it is a grocer's shop in
Arthur Street, Montgomery around 1900.

Picture
by kind permission of the Old Bell Museum,
Montgomery Civic Society

Powell's shop was well known at the
time for its home-made "fourpenny cake".
Young Edith Powell who grew up at the shop remembered how she hated grinding
the coffee by hand in the grinder. It made her arm ache!